Museum Articles, Blogs & Headlines — January 2007
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Pittsburgh, Buffalo museums share sculpture purchase
WSTM-TV NBC 3
PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art and Buffalo's Albright-Knox Gallery jointly bought a sculpture and will rotate the piece...
Model Homes on Display at Ohr Museum: Houses to Be Built on East Biloxi Properties
RedNova
By Pam Firmin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Jan. 14--BILOXI -- Architectural models of houses to be built on East Biloxi property where owners lost everything will go on exhibit Monday at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi...
Brown's family plans to turn home into Graceland-like museum
WIS News 10 Columbia
(Columbia-AP) January 12, 2007 - An attorney for late soul singer James Brown says the singer's children are planning to turn his Beech Island, South Carolina, home into a museum...
Movie boosts museum attendance
NorthJersey.com
Thousands of moviegoers who saw the film "Night at the Museum" are spending the day there, too...
Rembrandt and Saskia at Fitzwilliam Museum
Art Daily
Rembrandt, Rembrandt and his wife Saskia van Uylenburgh. © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK. CAMBRIDGE, UK.- The Fitzwilliam Museum presents Rembrandt and Saskia...
Museum of Natural History Developing Gallery Of Korean History
Washington Post
The National Museum of Natural History is developing a gallery dedicated to the traditional arts and history of Korea...
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'The Gross Clinic' heads to Philadelphia art museum
The Morning News
PHILADELPHIA -- Thomas Eakins' masterpiece "The Gross Clinic," which almost left the city until an intense fund-raising drive raised about 30 million to keep it, will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art beginning today...
Marshals select Fort Smith for museum
The Morning News
WASHINGTON -- Its bid strengthened by the lingering legacy of Old West lawmen, Fort Smith on Thursday was named the site for a U.S. Marshals Service museum...
Dallas Museum Hosts Exhibit
KETK 56 Tyler
DALLAS (AP) - A new exhibit heading for the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center will focus on sculptures by the French master Henri Matisse...
Bringing the Cold War to life at museums / ICBM silo, Nevada A-bomb test site are open for visitors
San Francisco Chronicle
It's odd, the feeling of comfort you get staring up at a 103-foot-tall intercontinental ballistic missile from the bottom of a hardened silo buried in the Arizona desert...
Iran Trying to Retrieve Persian Relics from Russia's Hermitage Museum
Payvand Iran News
During his visit to Russia in March 2007, ICHTO President will discuss the return of Persian artifacts from Hermitage Museum...
Selections by the Staff of the Palmer Museum of Art
Art Daily
Afghan Refugee Girl with Haunted Eyes, Peshawar, Pakistan, 1984, dye-transfer print, 20 x 16 inches, by Steve McCurry (American, b. 1950). Collection of the Palmer Museum of Art...
Robert E. Lee portrait on display at Museum of Confederacy
WDBJ 7 Roanoke
This month marks 200- years since Confederate General Robert E. Lee was born. To mark the occasion a mysterious portrait is being displayed at the Museum of Confederacy...
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Rare Flower On Verge Of Blooming At Maine Discovery Museum
WLBZ Bangor
You could say there is a big stink going on in Bangor over a rare flower. It is called the "corpse flower", its being grown at the Bangor Discovery Museum...
Ford Presidential Museum Reopens
ABC News
Ford Presidential Museum Reopens to Public for the First Time Since His Death Last Month...
Lincoln museum boasts one million visitors
The Pantagraph
SPRINGFIELD - Abraham Lincoln is packing 'em in. Just 21 months after opening, the Springfield museum honoring the life of the 16th president welcomed its millionth visitor on Saturday...
Review: The Nation's Mantelpiece by Jonathan Conlin
Guardian Unlimited
At long last, the National Gallery, one of our very finest collections, gets what it deserves - a scrupulously researched and entertaining history in Jonathan Conlin's The Nation's Mantelpiece...
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In hot pursuit of Egypt's lost mummies
The Christian Science Monitor
A recovery campaign has sparked debate over objects that museums acquired before a 1970 tightening of the antiquities...
MLA Support Helps Save 600 Year Old Archive
Managing Information
Through a generous grant by the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) has helped secure the Cartwright Archive for the people of Northamptonshire and the nation...
Whitney Museum could lose major funder following corporate breakup
Art Newspaper
NEW YORK. The breakup of the Altria conglomerate which begins this month is expected to severely reduce the company’s generous support of museums and other cultural...
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Maine's rich skiing heritage preserved in new museum
USA Today
The new Ski Museum of Maine helps to secure the state's place in the sport through its collection of wooden and newer skis and equipment, ad displays reflecting earlier eras of skiing, and a growing archive of records, documents and memorabilia...
New MoMA land deal will expand art museum again
KXAN 36 Austin
NEW YORK Little more than two years after a major expansion, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is set to grow again...
Museum officials 'knew statue was stolen'
News Interactive
OFFICIALS at the Getty museum knew a famous statue of the Greek goddess Aphrodite was possibly stolen when they acquired it for a record $18 million in 1988, the Los Angeles Times reported today...
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Houston Museum of Natural Science draws in 3 million visitors in 2006
BizJournals
The Houston Museum of Natural Science has the third-highest attendance of any museum in the United States...
Revealed: Nazi painting in London’s Maritime Museum looted by British
Art Newspaper
LONDON. We can report that a painting in the National Maritime Museum in London was looted by British troops from the Mürwik Naval Academy, in Germany, and later presented to the Greenwich museum...
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